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Recently we found that about 30% of our grade passback requests via the LTI Grading Outcome Service fail.Bellow are the HTTP responses for the error messages we get. If anyone has an insight, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!     HTTP/1.1 4...

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I'm struggling to link Github Classroom to my Canvas class. I've followed the steps at ; Github Classroom link to Canvas, however, I get a 404 error page when I try to click on Github Classroom in my Canvas page. Any ideas on why the Canvas page is u...

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My University is currently migrating from Blackboard to Canvas. We have a course where the points in the rubrics from Blackboard aren't showing up in Canvas. All the criteria and text is there, but the points have 0. We haven't had any issues with ot...

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I have noticed that Canvas Quizzes (both the new and old versions) do not show up at all on my To Do list. They don't appear when students first take the quiz on the due date, they don't appear when students retake a quiz after being allowed another ...

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Hello! I have an issue: My assignment is visible in the list between different teachers, but students can't see it in the list. If the teacher provides the link to the student the students can see the info of the assignment (if they have access to ...

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Hello, We are trying to run a report to see who accessed our school Canvas courses on a specific day. We know you can run a "Last Access" report, but that will just show up to date information. Instead, we are trying to find out which of our students...

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We have switched to Canvas this semester, and I've found that the annotation tools on Google Assignments are considerably more user friendly than what I have at my disposal on Canvas. In Canvas's defense, I find that the formatting and organization o...

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I do not see a way to export in a usable manner a single New Quiz. This page:  https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-export-quiz-content-from-a-course/ta-p/826 Implies it is possible to select export as a QTI ZIP file.   I see ...

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We're experimenting with Blueprint courses and I'm trying to find the best way to manage template courses. The documentation lists the SIS_ID as the required ID to make an association. But, we don't create empty classes in our SIS for blueprints.We w...

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Hi We have had an anonymous assignment. The task was closed on 27 Nov. No further submissions have been made after this date. Now, a few days later, the students have changed places. Student 65 has become student 66 and so on. This applies to about h...

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Hello.  I have a couple of questions regarding tests/percentages and front page/home tab.  Percentages on TestsFor Spring semester, the following are set up as assignmentsTest 1 = 20%Test 2 = 20%Test 3 = 20%Final = 40%TOTAL = 100% for the course grad...

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I am unable to find a complaint form through canvas, but the spell check system is completely unacceptable. Most simply misspelled words don't have a recommendation for the right spelling, much less any support for complicated words with convoluted s...

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Hi,First time Canvas user and the UX/UI already giving me nightmares.I set up several posts to which the students post replies. I don't want to check/grade/view/read every reply separately. If it's there, the student gets a 100, if not the students g...

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I am a trans student that has changed their name. I haven't started legally changing my name but seeing my deadname on canvas structures induces gender dysphoria.  How can you change your display name?

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We use a 3rd party grading system with the Canvas API to send grades back and forth. I use the submissions API to see all student assignment stats for a particular assignment (e.g. grade, late_policy_status, etc.). I've noticed that the "graded_at" f...

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I am a student using Canvas and when clicking on my calendar my classes on the right side of my screen are grey. There are also no assignments shown on my screen even though there are assignments due. How do I fix this issue? 

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I couldn't use the Canvas announcement send to option to republish the announcement

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I created a quiz that uses question banks. When I copied the quiz, to the same course, the question banks now say, "This question group is set to pick more questions than are available."Any help would be appreciated.

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Hello! I have a simple question: How can I find out the Course Section of an Assignment via API? When I use "/api/v1/courses/courseid/assignments' I get a table of assignments. There is a column with the course id but there is not a column with the s...

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I created a quiz and by doing so set up "Item Banks" that categorized my quiz questions by text book chapter reference (Item Bank Title.)  Now I have discovered the Course Bank function and wonder what the difference is between these two areas?  Wher...

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I need to move questions from a quiz that has been created in to a question bank so that I can categorize the questions and create other quizzes.

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Hola chicas y chicos,  resulta que el día 4 de diciembre tuve que realizar un examen en línea en esta aplicación, en el cual tenía que anexar una imagen en un problema para que la profesora pudiera ver los procedimientos que lleve a cabo durante mi e...

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Is anyone else having trouble with self-correcting quizzes that count some students' answers that contain a contraction wrong? This is in my Advanced ESL class, and at first I thought that some of the students were leaving an extra space when they ty...

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i can't access assignments under google docs or drive. it was working fine till around November, when i started getting access denied, or i need access. 

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MY VOICE DURING CONFERENCE USING BIG BLUE BUTTON IS NOT CLEAR AND IT IS AUTO CONNECTING AND DISCONNECTING

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Hi, While using an access token belonging to a student profile I tried out the submit assignment API. POST /api/v1/courses/{courseId}/assignments/{assignmentId}/submissions The response for the API is  {     "status": "unauthorized",     "errors": ...

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One of my students used a Microsoft Word file for an assignment. When I open speedgrader it is 11 pages. The file she turned in is only 9. When I download her assignment I get 9 pages aswell but in speedgrader it is 11.  What happened and how do I fi...

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I'm checking out the New Analytics function on my course and when I look at page views it seems to be counting every individual element on a page (as in each image) as a page view, which, given the number of elements on a page, is inflating the views...

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Hi team, When importing content from archived/concluded courses (or any I assume) which has modules and pages with hard links to quizzes/discussions etc, the new course will retain that hard link, which points back to the original course (the source ...

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I am a student with a graduate student instructor. My grade was changed and my instructor denied that it has. I unfortunately do not have any pictures of my old grade on my end, so I was hoping that my claims could be substantiated by the gradebook h...

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